Know Your Airline...Know Now
A I R L I N E R O U T E P R O F I TA B I L I T Y S Y S T E M
As highlighted in the functional overview brochure, Megabyte’s Almira can provide
vital information to an airline’s top management, decision makers and anyone else
within the company who requires multi-faceted statistical and financial reporting
for management accounting, budgeting, planning and forecasting purposes.
With the voluminous amount of data that airline operating systems generate, it is
usually hard to sort this information in the appropriate formats in order to derive
detailed route economics.
The power of Almira lies in the ability to call up all the relevant financial and
statistical data and present it in a variety of formats, facilitating multiple
cross-referencing scenarios with just a few clicks.
KEY BENEFITS
Extends the power of an airline's core business applications and ERPs
Enhances workflow, facilitating management accounting practices
Data collation efforts are greatly reduced, creating more time for data analysis
Predicts and estimates the profitability of an airline’s operation while providing
accurate information for analysis, planning and decision making purposes
Complete flexibility to define cost components and their occurrences within flight
and route parameters
Produces detailed DOC provisions for accrual and invoice verification purposes
Interfaces with an airline’s existing systems to create one centralized database
through which complete and accurate route profitability reports can be issued
Non-technical users can build customized reports to suit their current business
needs
All data is captured on a per flight basis facilitating the reporting of route results
without the need for manual intervention or allocation
Supports ‘what-if’ analysis allowing management to strategize more advantageous
plans
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A N A LY S I S A N D R E P O R T I N G
Almira extends the power of an airline’s existing systems by providing accurate
information, as in-depth as required, right down to a per-flight basis. The flexibility
of the reporting tool allows an airline’s management team to produce customised
reports according to their business requirements without having to alter existing
business processes.
The reporting tool used in conjunction with Almira offers:
- a user-friendly interface very similar to popular spreadsheet applications
- non-technical users the possibility to build and customise their own reports
- full export support to common file formats such as Microsft Excel
- multiple drill-down capabilities allowing focus on data of special interest
- pivoting of data for cross referencing
- easy parameterisation of queries
- the ability to save reports to the database facilitating distribution
- the option to represent retrieved data in a variety of graphical formats
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FINANCIAL REPORTS
On the Financial aspect, Almira is capable of producing reports based on
data sourced from various systems. Revenue originates from the
Revenue Accounting System, fixed and indirect expenses are extracted
from the airline’s Financial System and direct operating expenses are
completely handled internally by Almira. Detailed financial reporting is
also available for budgeting.
A sample report of
direct, indirect and
fixed expenses
grouped by
category and by
month.
The same report as
shown above, drilled
down to the next level
- expense elements.
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FINANCIAL REPORTS
This a screenshot of an
extract from a detailed
profitability report by
month. This information
is available down to
flight level.
Sample report of
Route Analysis
utilising Monthly
Revenue and
Direct Operating
Costs.
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FINANCIAL REPORTS
An extract of data imported through the interface with the Revenue
Accounting Systems showing revenue and related statistics by
route and revenue sector.
The images show here are a minor sample of the financial reports available through Almira. For a more detailed list of the
available data mining points, please refer to pages 14 and 15 of this brochure.
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F U E L A N A LY S I S
Fuel is an airline’s largest direct expense and it is of utmost importance that fuel costs can be
monitored and analysed. Through Almira airlines get full reporting capabilities on the fuel uplifted and the system
may also help them determine future volume requirements while negotiating fuel contracts with suppliers.
Analysis of fuel uplifts by
month, route and sector.
Fuel related statistics
by flight. This data is
imported from the
flight operations
system.
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F U E L A N A LY S I S
Analysis of fuel costs
estimates compared
to actual amounts
invoiced by the
suppliers, distributed
by element and
airport.
Estimated fuel uplift
volumes based on
budgeted flight
schedules and
aircraft burn off rates
by month and airport
of uplift.
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S TAT I S T I C A L R E P O R T S
Financial data on it’s own is not enough for an airline to analyse it’s
routes since a multitude of operational factors can drastically change
profitability. Statistics play an important role in the management of each
of an airline's routes. Almira provides detailed operational statistics for
analysis purposes as indicated in the example below.
Typical flight statistics imports from the Flight Operations system by operated sector.
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S TAT I S T I C A L R E P O R T S
Number of Sectors
and Block Hours by
Month for a Summer
schedule and related
bar graph.
The same report
above analysed by
aircraft registration
rather than by month.
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S TAT I S T I C A L R E P O R T S
A sample report showing
passenger related statistics
by operated sector imported
from Flight Operations
System.
Seat Factor Summary report by Month
for the Summer period.
The images shown here are a small sample of the statistical reports available through
Almira. For a more detailed list of the available data mining points, please refer to
pages 14 and 15 of this brochure.
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D ATA P O I N T S
The following are some of the data points available for call up in the reporting
section of Almira. Though the lists are extensive, they are not limited, as more
data points can be set according to the existing and future business procedures
of the airline. It is impossible to show every reporting scenario in the brochure,
so the following is just a small sample of what Almira is capable of
Almira – REPORTING DATA ITEMS
The following is a list of details available for reporting for every operated flight.
(Items marked with a * are also available for budget flight schedules.)
Planned/extra indicator
Operation type – scheduled or charter *
Flight number *
Sector – from and to airport *
Scheduled date and time of departure *
Scheduled date and time of arrival *
Actual date and time of departure
Actual date and time of arrival
Actual date and time of departure (air)
Actual date and time of arrival (air)
Type of aircraft used *
Registration of aircraft used
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The following is a list of statistical data available for operated flights. (Items marked with a * are also available
for budget flight schedules. Of course these are based on averages and forecasted figures.)
Block hours *
Cargo kilograms *
Flown distance *
Freight tonne kilometres (FTKs) *
Fuel uplifted (USG) before departure
Mail kilograms *
Fuel (USG) on departure
Mail tonne kilometres (MTKs) *
Fuel (USG) on arrival
Revenue tonne kilometres (RTKs) *
Fuel (USG) burnt *
No. of available seats *
No. of passengers on board
Seat hours *
(club, economy, free) *
Available seat kilometres *
Revenue passenger weight
Pay load *
kilometres (RPWKs) *
Available tonne kilometres (ATKs) *
Once actual revenue figures for a flight are imported from the Revenue Accounting
System(s) the following statistical information will also be available based on the
flight coupons:
No. of revenue passengers
No. of non-revenue passengers
No. of club class passengers
No. of economy class passengers
No. of passengers by point-of-sale
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The following monetary information is also available by flight. Note that revenue and related statistics are
available both on an operated sector basis and also as per coupon.
REVENUE
EXPENSES
Passenger Revenue by
Point-of-Sale
Seat Class Type
Cargo Revenue
Mail Revenue
Excess Baggage Revenue
Other Revenue (Fuel Surcharge,
Insurance Surcharge, etc.)
Aviation Fuel and Oil
Cargo Handling Charges
Crew Expenses
Enroute Navigation Charges
In-flight Catering
Landing Charges
Parking Charges
Traffic Handling Charges
Revenue and expense categories and elements are user-definable and can be defined based on an airlines
reporting requirements.
Fixed and Indirect Expenses
Almira has a mechanism through which fixed and indirect expenses can be imported as a total and allocated
to the operated flights based on of the following allocation basis:
Cargo Kilogram
Mail Kilograms
Cycles
Flights
Night Stops
De-rate
Block Hours
Seats
Seat Hours
Maintenance Hours
Pax Revenue
Cargo Revenue
Mail Revenue
Revenue Passenger Kilometres
Available Tonne Kilometres
Pay Load
Total Pax
Club Pax
Economy Pax
The allocation can also be carried out on flights operated by a particular type of aircraft or flights that hit a
specific country or base.
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C O M PA N Y O V E R V I E W
Established in 1979 Megabyte is an IT Solutions provider
with a track record of major achievements in the business
and government sectors. It has extensive experience in the
analysis, design, development and implementation of major
IT solutions.
A high level of expertise and continual research and
development into new technologies, have enabled Megabyte
to provide state of the art IT solutions.
Indeed Megabyte boasts an extensive list of customers in
the public and private sector.
For further information, please contact:
MEGABYTE LIMITED F4, The Technopark, Mosta MST 3000, Malta
T: +356 2142 1600 E: info@megabyte.net W: www.megabyte.net
MEGABYTE LIMITED F4, The Technopark, Mosta MST 3000, Malta
T: +356 2142 1600 E: info@megabyte.net W: www.megabyte.net